Motivation

The Best 25 Motivational Quotes To Kick Start Every Morning

Thoughts become things, and as entrepreneurs and leaders, it is especially important that we remember to pay attention to our thoughts every day and motivational quotes are a great way of doing this. Your ability to stay motivated isn’t just for your personal benefit; it affects those around you as well: your team, your investors, your families and friends. When you can stay motivated, everyone around you is improved.

As you start each day, let these motivational quotes from some of the best minds on the planet, past and present, inspire you think positive, inspirational thoughts habitually throughout your days.

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” — Mother Teresa

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” — Vincent van Gogh

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” — Farrah Gray

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” — Amelia Earhart

“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” — Chris Grosser

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” — Oscar Wilde

“Being motivated costs you nothing, but can get you everything.” — Murray Newlands

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” — Florence Nightingale

“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” — W. Clement Stone

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” — Woody Allen

“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs

Building great businesses, achieving massive goals and rising to the top of your profession doesn’t just happen by accident. It happens through a ridiculous work ethic and consistently showing up every single day.

Here are 20 quotes to help motivate you to hustle like never before:

1. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” — Stephen C. Hogan

2. “When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. So I did 10 times more work.” — George Bernard Shaw

3. “If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree. You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.” — Henry Rollins

4. “Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” — William James

5. “Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.” — Sophia Loren

6. “Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” — Swami Sivananda

7. “If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

8. “Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.” — Pope Paul VI

9. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” — Stephen King

10. “God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.” — J.G. Holland

11. “Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” — Edward H. Harriman